Originally Posted by reCALcitrant

I've flown many time with one our 787 guys in IAH who is a pbs trainer and does some programming on the side. He's mentioned to me that the FO bid group takes 2 days longer than the captains because of lack of computing power. They can set it to run up and down the preferences 10 people at a time or top to bottom until it satisfies itself. So to speak. Now throw into that different aircraft, twice as many people, 5 different galleys, locations, international, speakers etc. I could see it being a problem. Also. They're flight attendants. Who gives a damn. Why are we talking about them?